From the Globe and Mail this morning…
Exxon Mobil Corp., one of the world’s biggest oil companies, has turned up the heat on the Canadian government, saying the company will shelve the long-delayed Mackenzie Valley pipeline project unless it can get significant taxpayers’ assistance for it.
The solution to this is simple. If it doesn’t pay, don’t do it!
This project, regardless of the serious environmental impacts of constructing it in the first place and the subsequent “opening of the North to resource development”, will do nothing but transport gas to Alberta for use in extracting oil from the tar sands so that oil can be sold to the United States.
So let’s be clear, Exxon Mobil is asking Canadian taxpayers…
- to fund global warming.
- to fund the faster extraction of a vita, diminishing resource and burn it up.
- to fund the environmental degradation of the North by opening it up to development.
- to assist the worlds most profitable country on a project that is otherwise uneconomic.
Whereas the alternative is to wait for oil & gas prices to rise, which they will, and do the project then under better economic terms and without the need for a government handout. Or don’t do the project at all.
We need to send a message loud and clear to Ottawa that this use of our tax dollars is not acceptable.
For what’s it’s worth, each of us should write letters and campaign against this.
And then vote for real leadership. Vote Green.
